Three decades ago or thirty years to this day, Pakistan’s democratic train was derailed for the second time in eleven years. And the erring...
Three decades ago or thirty years to this day, Pakistan’s democratic train was derailed for the second time in eleven years. And the erring...
Nearly six decades ago, Pakistan experienced its first military rule when the then army chief, Muhammad Ayub Khan, imposed the country’s first...
Today is the 40th anniversary of Gen Ziaul Haq’s toppling of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s government. Forty eventful and some not so eventful...
It was the 29th of May, 1988. As the PIA jet rolled off the runway and flew out from Manila into the unexpectedly calm skies over the Manila Bay,...
Were Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Abdul Hafeez Pirzada lesser Sindhis than Asif Ali Zardari and Qaim Ali Shah? Certainly not! Forty-two years ago,...
Were Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Abdul Hafeez Pirzada lesser Sindhis than Asif Ali Zardari and Qaim Ali Shah? Certainly not! Forty-two years ago,...
I dedicate my column this year on the events of December 16, 1971 to the memory of Salahuddin Qadir Chowdhry who was sent to the gallows in Dhaka...
I dedicate my column this year on the events of December 16, 1971 to the memory of Salahuddin Qadir Chowdhry who was sent to the gallows in Dhaka...
As some political parties, with their hands now forced out of the till, shout victimisation, a report in a national daily declares that a minister...
As some political parties, with their hands now forced out of the till, shout victimisation, a report in a national daily declares that a minister...
As I stepped in, rather nervously, to meet my new boss on a September afternoon forty-one year ago to this day, I heard a loud and crisp voice ask:...
As I stepped in, rather nervously, to meet my new boss on a September afternoon forty-one year ago to this day, I heard a loud and crisp voice ask:...
I am surprised at those who are surprised by the Indian decision to postpone what was being billed as an ice-breaking meeting between the National...
It is sad and sickening. And that is putting it mildly. That the country's once largest political party should come to this pass is sad. That its...
Perspective
Perspective
It was amusing to hear an anchor in a TV show saying that Husain Haqqani’s article asking the United States not to sell Viper helicopters and...
It was amusing to hear an anchor in a TV show saying that Husain Haqqani’s article asking the United States not to sell Viper helicopters and...
